Metamorphic rocks

A typical ligurian ophiolitic sequence

Andalusite bearing micaschist

Baviaanskloof gneisses

Blueschist metagabbro

Bradshaw Mountains Garnetite (Close-up)

Cm-size andalusite crystals

Conctac schist, Calabria

Contact metamorphism around Monte Capanne pluton, Elba island, Italy

Crenulation cleavage

Crenulation cleavage in metasandstone

Dalgaringa gneiss

Deformed veins (Rainy Lake)

Dyke in the migmatitic gneiss at St Tropez

Exotic Metamorphic Block, Ring Mountain

Fault and fold in calcschist of Giens near Hyères, France

fold in the most external portion of the”Eclogitic Micaschist Complex” (Sesia-Lanzo Unit)

Folded leucosome, Punta Ottiolu, Sardinia

Folded migmatites, Antarctica

Folds and metasomatized, retrogressed ex garnet peridotite (now serpentinized) boudins within amphibole-bearing migmatitic gneiss, Borgo outcrop Darengo Valley, Adula nappe

Folds in marbles and stretched dykes, Elba Island

Folds in micaschist

Garnet + staurolite bearing micaschist

Garnet and biotite in micaschist of Rayol le Canadel

Garnet and muscovite in micaschist of Rayol le Canadel

Garnet and sillimanite gneiss

Garnet and staurolite in micaschist of Rayol le Canadel

Glaucophane-bearing metabasite in mylonitic calcschists

Gneiss with quartz lenses

Granite dykes in metamorphic rocks of Calamita schist, Elba Island

Insubric Line (“Tonale Line”) mylonites with pseudotachylyte injections

Intense ductile deformation

interference pattern figure, sheath folds “Paina Marble” mylonite

Intertectonic cm-size staurolite porhyroblasts

Jurassic Marble, Roman Amphitheater, Lucca

Leptyno-amphibolitic group

Leucocratic dykes cutting across migmatitic schists

Linear fabric in orthogneiss

melt in shear zone

Metagabbro of Chenaillet ophiolite

Metagabbro of the Oman ophiolite

Metagranite of Monte Mucrone

Metamorphic rocks

Migmatic gneiss

Migmatitic gneiss at St Tropez

Migmatitic high-strain paragneisses

Monte filau Orthogneiss

Monzogranite mylonite

Mt. Makalu south face

Mylonitic metagabbro (Monviso)

Namibia Boudins

Ophiolitic Breccias

orthogneiss with pseudotachylyte

Pebbles of metagabbros

pegmatite boudin

Pillow Basalt at Tennessee Point

Pillows lavas of the Monte Viso

Pseudotachylyte

Punta Sirenella

Roman road, Aosta Valley

S-C mylonites in the Calamita Schists

Sapphirine bearing granulites from Gruf Compex, Penninic Domain, index of U.H.T. – “Ultra High Temperature” metamorphism in central (italian Rethic) Alps

Serpentine along Hayward fault

Sheath fold, Elba island

Sheath folds in mylonitic marble

Sierra Estrella Epidote + Quartz Rock

Sierra Estrella Garnet

Sillimanite nodules

Sillimanite nodules, Punta Ainu, Sardinia

Staurolite with garnet and tourmaline in quartz rich micaschist of Rayol le Canadel

Strada romana, Aosta Valley

Thrust Zermatt-Saas unit over Monte Rosa nappe

Tudela leucosomes

veins in gneiss

Wadi Rahma dykes

Yarweelor Gneiss

Staurolite Porphyroblasts 1

Staurolite Porphyroblasts 2